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There are two methods of antialiasing used in web browsers, greyscale and subpixel. Type rendered using subpixel antialiasing tends to look heavier than when rendered with greyscale. Most browsers will consistently use one or the other and in some cases it’s possible change your settings. Webkit on the [...]

As we use the techniques of responsive design to make web experiences more adaptable and perform better on a variety of devices, the question of “what about the video” invariably comes up. Historically, online video has mostly been served by the venerable suite of technologies based on Adobe [...]

If you’ve been building front-end interfaces for more than a minute, then you know that you have to do lots of extra work to wrangle Internet Explorer. If you have been able to let IE6 go (yes, that’s long overdue, but one client of ours just stopped supporting [...]

With the introduction of the iPad in 2010 many publishers felt the ideal form factor had arrived, and Apple’s App Store was distribution’s Holy Grail.

Since the introduction of WordPress 3.3 inserting media into a post has been reduced to the clicking of a single button, the Upload/Insert button.

RESTful web services are commonplace these days, with Basic Authentication + HTTPS being the de facto standard for securing them. The vast majority of the time, developing against such a web service is pretty easy. Except when it isn’t. I recently built a RESTful web service in Grails [...]

The Brightcove Video Cloud WordPress plugin allows for easy insertion of Brightcove videos into their WordPress site. Now users can seamlessly insert single videos or playlist in their site through our easy to use interface.

Details matter, especially the little ones. Little details can power user adoption and trust. Little details are difference between good design and a sloppy mess.

The next Boston Grails meetup has been scheduled! Since the last round of Lightning Talks was successful, let’s do it again! Do you have an interesting plugin or tool you want to show off? How about a deep dive into your favorite Grails feature? Have a cool Grails [...]

Your career is a business and you should manage it like one. There is a lot to being a great software engineer and therein lies the problem: a focus on the technical (which is important, clearly) but a neglect of business, communication, and management skills needed to be [...]